Facet 1: Explanation
Students can provide sophisticated and apt explanations and theories, which provide knowledgeable and justified accounts of events, actions, and ideas.
Why is that so?
How can that be explained?
How can that be proven?
To what is this connected?
How does it work?
What is implied?
Facet 2: Interpretation
Students create meaning in what they learn.
What does it mean?
Why does it matter?
What of it?
What does it illustrate or illuminate in human experience?
How does it relate to me?
What makes sense?
Facet 3: Application
Students gain the ability to use knowledge effectively in new situations and diverse contexts.
How and where can we use this knowledge, skill, or process?
How should my thinking and action be modified to meet the demands of this particular situation?
Facet 4: Perspective
Students can see critical and insightful points of view.
From whose point of view?
From which vantage point?
What is assumed or tacit that needs to be made explicit and considered?
What is justified or warranted?
Is there adequate evidence?
Is it reasonable?
What are the strengths or weaknesses of the idea?
Is it plausible?
What are its limits? So what?
Facet 5: Empathy
Students have the ability to get inside another person's feelings and worldview.
How does it seem to you?
What do they see that I don't?
What do I need to experience if I am to understand?
What was the artist or performer feeling, seeing, and trying to make me feel and see?
Facet 6: Self-Knowledge
Self-knowledge includes the wisdom to know one's ignorance and how one's patterns of thought and action inform as well as prejudice understanding.
How does who I am shape my views?
What are the limits of my understanding?
What are my blind spots?
What am I prone to misunderstand because of prejudice, habit, or style?
BACK
Students can provide sophisticated and apt explanations and theories, which provide knowledgeable and justified accounts of events, actions, and ideas.
Students create meaning in what they learn.
Students gain the ability to use knowledge effectively in new situations and diverse contexts.
Students can see critical and insightful points of view.
Students have the ability to get inside another person's feelings and worldview.
Self-knowledge includes the wisdom to know one's ignorance and how one's patterns of thought and action inform as well as prejudice understanding.